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Cavallo Point Lodge bookstore One of the occasional delights that I have, is that while working on one project, through a series of somewhat related connections, other great opportunities appear! Here is my current example; while working on Linda Connor's photobook Odyssey review for The PhotoBook, I found about a wonderful photographic place to creatively hang-out in... Continue Reading →
Copyright Douglas Stockdale I am continuing to think about what I saw in China over the nine months that I was there. China is a place that is in a rapid transition to try to become "modern", and at the time, they had a ton of money to throw at their public projects. And I think... Continue Reading →
Having received my production proof of Insomnia: Hotel Noir, I think that this project is now "in the bag". I still have some images to save into the submission format for Critical Mass, but I find myself emotionally moving on. So that takes me to what project do I want to develop next? I think that... Continue Reading →
I have found that I do not feel as compelled to write something on this blog each day like I did a couple of years ago. Perhaps that is resulting from diveristy of the other blogs that I contribute to. Maybe this is the post-publishing let down after finishing Insomnia: Hotel Noir? For general photographic news that I... Continue Reading →
Insomnia: Hotel Noir copyright 2009 by Douglas Stockdale I just announced on my Insomnia: Hotel Noir blog that I published the book with Blurb over the weekend. nice. And this morning I received back some nice comments from David Maisel regarding my review of his book, Libraries of Dust, which I just published on The... Continue Reading →
SideGate from the series Insomnia: Hotel Noir It looks like I should be able to make the July 15th deadline for my Blurb book submission, as I just loaded this photograph, SideGate, as a full bleed image into my Booksmart page. That leaves just one more photograph to go, and I have already completed most of the... Continue Reading →
AwayStation from the series Insomnia: Hotel Noir Well after a little too long of a hiatus, I have found my Insomnia files that seemed to have been crawling around in the garage during the studio re-model. Well, I could not find them, and I certainly would know where I had stored them, eh? I think the... Continue Reading →
When we decided to put new flooring down in the studio, we also realized that we needed more individual working space. So we ordered some more furniture, which meant that everything did not go back into place after we had the new flooring installed. Because why load things into the existing stuff that is going to be... Continue Reading →
A good friend of mine, Larry Vogel, has started a new blog this last weekend, called The New Renaissance Man. Although Larry is primarily a photographer, represented by the Susan Spiritus Gallery here in SoCal, he is muti-talented to the point of considering himself a new Renaissance Man. His blogging intentions are stated here: This... Continue Reading →
First, interesting week. Having the new flooring laid in the studio was a one day job,and it looks great. But that was followed by the carpet in the house, only one day, eh? BUT with moving everything out to get the new stuff down, getting everything back in place is a slooooow pain in the hinny.... Continue Reading →
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